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GraceLand / Abani, Chris
Resurrecting Mingus / Adams, Jenoyne
Selah's bed / Adams, Jenoyne
Hideaway saga / Alers, Rochelle
Secrets never told / Alers, Rochelle
Rails under my back / Allen, Jeffery Renard
Place between stations / Allen, Stephanie
Baby Sweet's / Andrews, Raymond
Appalachee Red / Andrews, Raymond
Hand I fan with / Ansa, Tina McElroy
Ugly ways / Ansa, Tina McElroy
You know better / Ansa, Tina McElroy
Redder blood / Ashby, William M.
Fire in Beulah / Askew, Rilla
After the garden / Austin, Doris Jean
Mr. Dream Merchant / Bailey, Erroll J.
Duey's tale / Bailey, Pearl
Floating / Bailey-Williams, Nicole
Little piece of sky / Bailey-Williams, Nicole
Maintenance man / Baisden, Michael
God's gift to women / Baisden, Michael
Naming the new world / Baker, Calvin
Once two heroes / Baker, Calvin
In the game / Baker, Nikki
Long goodbyes / Baker, Nikki
Where I'm bound / Ballard, Allen B.
Salt eaters / Bambara, Toni Cade
Sea birds are still alive / Bambara, Toni Cade
Those bones are not my child / Bambara, Toni Cade
Maid in the shade / Banks, Jacqueline Turner
Betrayal of the trust / Banks, Leslie E.
Fiction of LeRoi Jones / Baraka, Amiri
Lion's blood / Barnes, Steven
Zulu heart / Barnes, Steven
Seeds beneath the snow / Bates, Arthenia J.
Plain brown wrapper / Bates, Karen Grigsby
Tuff / Beatty, Paul
White boy shuffle / Beatty, Paul
Mississippi blues / Bell, Cassandra Darden
Gospel choirs / Bell, Derrick
Almost midnight / Belton, Don
Seventh heaven / Bennett, Hal
Colored garden / Bennett, O.H.
Abiding hope / Benson, Angela
Awakening mercy / Benson, Angela
Haunting of hip hop / Berry, Bertice
Redemption song / Berry, Bertice
So good / Berry, Venise
Colored sugar water / Berry, Venise
Let the church say amen / Billingsley, ReShonda Tate
Fatal remains / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
See no evil / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Windy City dying / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Done wrong / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Gone quiet / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Keep still / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Scream in silence / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Slow burn / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Tell no tales / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Whispers in the dark / Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Frye Street & environs / Bonner, Marita
Second Sunday / Bowen, Michele Andrea
Rainbow roun mah shoulder / Bragg, Linda Brown
Long way from home / Briscoe, Connie
Sisters & lovers / Briscoe, Connie
Can't get enough / Briscoe, Connie
Days without weather / Brown, Cecil
Lemon City / Brown, Elaine Meryl
Crossing over Jordan / Brown, Linda Beatrice
Sittin' in the front pew / Brown, Parry EbonySatin
Darktown strutters / Brown, Wesley
Tragic magic / Brown, Wesley
Black sleuth / Bruce, John Edward
Upstate / Buckhanon, Kalisha
Reluctant rapist / Bullins, Ed
Balancing act / Bunkley, Anita R.
Emily, the yellow rose / Bunkley, Anita R.
Mirrored life / Bunkley, Anita R.
Relative interest / Bunkley, Anita R.
Starlight passage / Bunkley, Anita R.
Wild embers / Bunkley, Anita R.
SilkyDreamGirl / Burks, Cris
Dawn : xenogenesis / Butler, Octavia E.
Patternmaster / Butler, Octavia E.
Clay's ark / Butler, Octavia E.
Just my luck / Butler, Tajuana
Brothers and sisters / Campbell, Bebe Moore
72 hour hold / Campbell, Bebe Moore
Coq au vin / Carter, Charlotte
Drumsticks / Carter, Charlotte
Jackson Park / Carter, Charlotte
Rhode Island red / Carter, Charlotte
Walking bones / Carter, Charlotte
Emperor of Ocean Park / Carter, Stephen L.
Such sweet thunder / Carter, Vincent O.
Be-bop, re-bop / Cartier, Xam
Price of a child / Cary, Lorene
Pride / Cary, Lorene
Prayer for deliverance / Chambers, Christopher
Sympathy for the Devil / Chambers, Christopher
Miss Black America / Chambers, Veronica
Waiting in vain / Channer, Colin
Echo of lions / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Hottentot Venus / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
President's daughter / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Valide / Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Marrow of tradition. / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Quarry / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Mandy Oxendine / Chesnutt, Charles W.
Those other people / Childress, Alice
October suite / Clair, Maxine
River, cross my heart / Clarke, Breena
Babylon sisters / Cleage, Pearl
Back to life / Coakley-Thompson, Wendy
Don't ever wonder / Coleman, Darren
What a woman's gotta do / Coleman, Evelyn
Breeder and other stories / Collier, Eugenia
Beach umbrella. / Colter, Cyrus
Amoralists & other tales / Colter, Cyrus
Chocolate soldier / Colter, Cyrus
Hippodrome / Colter, Cyrus
Night studies / Colter, Cyrus
Damaged! / Connor, Bernadette Y.
Parcel express murders / Conoor, Bernadette Y.
Homemade love / Cooper, J. California
In search of satisfaction / Cooper, J. California
Matter is life / Cooper, J. California
Some love, some pain, sometime / Cooper, J. California
Future has a past / Cooper, J. California
Some people, some other place / Cooper, J. California
Wake of the wind / Cooper, J. California
Black! : three short novels / Cooper, Jr. Clarence
Kwanzaa fable / Copage, Eric V.
Diamond life / Copeland, Sheila
Best defense / Cose, Ellis
Bondwoman's narrative / Crafts, Hannah
Schooling Carmen / Cross, Kathleen
One way to heaven / Cullen, Countee
L.A. justice / Darden, Christopher
Last defense / Darden, Christopher
Lawless / Darden, Christopher
Trials of Nikki Hill / Darden, Christopher
Shifting through neutral / Davis, Bridgett M.
Far from the tree / DeBerry, Virginia
Atlantis : three tales / Delany, Samuel R.
Bridge of lost desire / Delany, Samuel R.
Dhalgren / Delany, Samuel R.
Distant stars / Delany, Samuel R.
Flight from Nevereyon / Delany, Samuel R.
Nova / Delany, Samuel R.
Tales of Nevereyon / Delany, Samuel R.
Aye, and Gomorrah / Delany, Samuel R.
Mama stands accused / DeLoach, Nora
Mama stalks the past / DeLoach, Nora
Mama saves a victim / DeLocah, Nora
Beetlecreek / Demby, William
Mighty love / Diggs, Anita Doreen
Other side of the game / Diggs, Anita Doreen
Trouble the water / Dixon, Melvin
Boy at the window / Dodson, Owen
Caught in the mix / Dow, Candice
Leaving / Dry, Richard
Dark princess, a romance / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Mansart builds a school / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Ordeal of Mansart / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Quest of the silver fleece / Du Bois, W.E.B.
Worlds of color / Du Bois, W.E.B.
And bid him sing / DuBois, David Graham
Good house / Due, Tananarive
Between / Due, Tananarive
Black rose / Due, Tananarive
Joplin's ghost / Due, Tananarive
My soul to keep / Due, Tananarive
Ark of bones / Duman, Henry
Echo tree / Dumas, Henry
Goodbye sweetwater / Dumas, Henry
Fanatics. / Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Captain Swing / Duplechan, Larry
Tangled up in blue / Duplechan, Larry
Gabriel's story / Durham, David Anthony
Walk through darkness / Durham, David Anthony
Pride of Carthage / Durham, David Anthony
Do or die / Edwards, Grace F.
Toast before dying / Edwards, Grace F.
Viaduct / Edwards, Grace F.
No time to die / Edwards, Grace F.
If we must die / Edwards, Junius
N : a romantic mystery / Edwards, Louis
In the shadow of the peacock / Edwards-Yearwood, Grace
Granddaddy's dirt / Egeston, Brian
Good fences / Ellis, Erika
Home repairs / Ellis, Trey
Juneteenth / Ellison, Ralph
Mercy, mercy me / Elmore, Ronn
Obsessed / Ephron, G.H.
First thing smoking / Eubanks, Nelson
Cutting Lisa / Everett, Percival
Erasure / Everett, Percival
Frenzy / Everett, Percival
Glyph / Everett, Percival
God's country / Everett, Percival
Suder / Everett, Percival
Watershed / Everett, Percival
Zulus / Everett, Percival
American desert / Everett, Percival L.
Damned if I do / Everett, Percival L.
We can't breathe / Fair, Ronald
There is confusion / Fauset, Jessie
Chinaberry tree / Fauset, Jessie
Child of God / Files, Lolita
Scenes from a sistah / Files, Lolita
Tastes like chicken / Files, Lolita
Blind ambitions / Files, Lolita
City of refuge / Fisher, Rudolph
Conjure-man dies / Fisher, Rudolph
Until summer's end / Flourny, Valerie
Another good loving blues / Flowers, Arthur
Flippin' the script / Ford, Aisha
Crave / Ford, Darnella
Rising / Ford, Darnella
Bloodworth orphans / Forrest, Leon
Divine days / Forrest, Leon
Meteor in the madhouse / Forrest, Leon
Blues from down deep / Forster, Gwynne
If you walked in my shoes / Forster, Gwynne
Whatever it takes / Forster, Gwynne
Ain't no river / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Passing by Samaria / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Passing into light / Foster, Sharon Ewell
Going buck wild / Foxx, Nina
Billy / French, Albert
I can't wait on God / French, Albert
Patches of fire / French, Albert
Blinking red light / Frisby, Mister Mann
Blowback / Fullilove, Eric James
Catherine Carmier / Gaines, Ernest J.
Gathering of old men / Gaines, Ernest J.
In my father's house / Gaines, Ernest J.
Lesson before dying / Gaines, Ernest J.
Details at ten / Garland, Ardella
Hit time / Garland, Ardella
Laelia / Garnett, Ruth-Miriam
Night work / George, Nelson
One woman short / George, Nelson
Show & tell / George, Nelson
Urban romance / George, Nelson
Accidental hunter / George, Nelson
Aunt Sara's wooden god / Gilbert, Mercedes
And do remember me / Golden, Marita
Edge of heaven / Golden, Marita
Long distance life / Golden, Marita
Don't explain / Gomez, Jewelle
Gilda stories / Gomez, Jewelle
Faraday's popcorn factory / Gould, Sandra Lee
Out of the darkness / Grant, John Wesley
Atlanta live / Green, Carmen
Hanging by her teeth / Greer, Bonnie
Devil's backbone / Greer, Robert O.
Devil's hatband / Greer, Robert O.
Devil's red nickel / Greer, Robert O.
Heat shock / Greer, Robert O.
Limited time / Greer, Robert O.
Among others / Griffith, Lois
Pointing the way / Griggs, Sutton E.
Unfettered Dorlan's plan / Griggs, Sutton E.
Promises beyond Jordan / Griggs, Vanessa Davis
Wings of grace / Griggs, Vanessa Davis
Bombingham / Grooms, Anthony
Like boogie on Tuesday / Grosvenor, Linda Dominique
Sapphire's grave / Gurley-Highgate, Hilda
Mirror of her own / Guy, Rosa
Friends. / Guy, Rosa
Mama Flora's family / Haley, Alex
Still waters / Haley, Patricia
Quiet storm / Hall, Rachel Howzell
Cold medina / Hardwick, Gary
Double dead / Hardwick, Gary
Supreme justice / Hardwick, Gary
House is not a home / Hardy, James Earl
Sweet bye-bye / Harris, Denise Michelle
If this world were mine / Harris, E. Lynn
Just as I am / Harris, E. Lynn
Love of my own / Harris, E. Lynn
Not a day goes by / Harris, E. Lynn
Red moon / Haulsey, Kuwana
Angel of Harlem / Haulsey, Kuwana
Heathens / Haynes, David
Live at five / Haynes, David
Full Matilda / Haynes, David
All the lucky ones are dead / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Bad news travels fast / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Fear of the dark / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Going nowhere fast / Haywood, Gar Anthony
It's not a pretty sight / Haywood, Gar Anthony
Not long for this world / Haywood, Gar Anthony
When last seen alive / Haywood, Gar Anthony
You can die trying / Haywood, Gar Anthony
River woman / Hemans, Donna
Living water / Hendricks, Obery
Walk into morning / Herschler, Mildred Barger
In my bedroom / Hill, Donna
Ordinary woman / Hill, Donna
Cry me a river / Hill, Ernest
Life for a life / Hill, Ernest
Moaner's bench / Hill, Mars
All shot up / Himes, Chester
Blind man with a pistol / Himes, Chester
Cotton comes to Harlem / Himes, Chester
End of a primitive / Himes, Chester
For love of Imabelle / Himes, Chester
Heat's on / Himes, Chester
Plan B / Himes, Chester
Rage in Harlem / Himes, Chester
Real cool killers / Himes, Chester
Luminous mysteries / Holman, John
Devil's shadow / Holton, Hugh
Presumed dead / Holton, Hugh
Violent crimes / Holton, Hugh
Windy city / Holton, Hugh
Chicago blues / Holton, Hugh
Red lightning / Holton, Hugh
Midnight robber / Hopinkson, Nalo
Skin folk / Hopinkson, Nalo
Brown girl in the ring / Hopkinson, Nalo
Why sleeping dogs lie / Howard, Tracie
Never kiss and tell / Howard, Tracie
Tomorrow may never come / Hudson-Smith, Linda
Return of Simple / Hughes, Langston
Best of Simple / Hughes, Langston
Not without laughter / Hughes, Langston
Free / Hunt, Marsha
Joy / Hunt, Marsha
Lakestown rebellion / Hunter, Kristin
Lou in the limelight / Hunter, Kristin
Survivors / Hunter, Kristin
Hearts of men / Hunter, Travis
One woman man / Hunter, Travis
Trouble man / Hunter, Travis
One woman man / Hunter, Travis
Jonah's gourd vine / Hurston, Zora Neale
Moses, man of the mountain / Hurston, Zora Neale
Spunk / Hurston, Zora Neale
Operation burning candle / Jackson, Blyden
Savvy sistahs / Jackson, Brenda
Playa's handbook / Jackson, Brenda
View from here / Jackson, Brian Keith
Man inspired / Jackson, Derek
Neva hafta / Jackson, Edwardo
River where blood is born / Jackson-Opoku, Sandra
Cover girls / Jakes, T.D.
Fling with a demon lover / James, Kelvin Christopher
Jumping ship and other stories / James, Kelvin Christopher
Hatwearer's lesson / Joe, Yolanda
My fine lady / Joe, Yolanda
This just in / Joe, Yolanda
Video cowboys / Joe, Yolanda
Middle passage / Johnson, Charles
Oxherding tale / Johnson, Charles
Man finds his way / Johnson, Freddie Lee
Drop / Johnson, Mat
Hunting in Harlem / Johnson, Mat
Million dollar divorce / Johnson, R. M.
Dating games / Johnson, R.M.
Father found / Johnson, R.M.
Harris family / Johnson, R.M.
Harris men / Johnson, R.M.
Eden, Ohio / Johnson, Shawne
Getting our breath back / Johnson, Shawne
Larissa's breadbook / Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine
Journey to here / Johnson-Hodge, Margaret
Known world / Jones, Edward P.
Corregidora / Jones, Gayl
Eva's man / Jones, Gayl
Mosquito / Jones, Gayl
Red on a rose / Jones, Patricia
Color of family / Jones, Patricia
Bridge / Jones, Solomon
Pipe dream / Jones, Solomon
Ride or die / Jones, Solomon
Leaving Atlanta / Jones, Tayari
Untelling / Jones, Tayari
Those the sun has loved / Jourdain, Rose
Night journey / Kalam, Murad
Annotations / Keene, John
Dancers on the shore / Kelley, William Melvin
Dem / Kelley, William Melvin
Deadly triplets / Kennedy, Adrienne
Bling / Kennedy, Erica
Pecking order / Kennedy, Mark
And then we heard the thunder / Killens, John Oliver
Great Black Russian / Killens, John Oliver
Sippi / Killens, John Oliver
Annie John / Kincaid, Jamaica
At the bottom of the river / Kincaid, Jamaica
Autobiography of my mother / Kincaid, Jamaica
Mr. Potter / Kincaid, Jamaica
All good things / Kitt, Sandra
Family affairs. / Kitt, Sandra
Significant others / Kitt, Sandra
Sarah's psalm / Ladd, Florence
Close to the bone / Lamar, Jake
Last integrationist / Lamar, Jake
Jesus thief / Lankford, J.R.
Passing / Larsen, Nella
Quicksand and passing / Larsen, Nella
Do unto others / Lattany, Kristin
Slapboxing with Jesus / LaValle, Victor D.
Interesting women / Lee, Andrea
Sarah Phillips / Lee, Andrea
River George / Lee, George W.
Water marked / Lee, Helen Elaine
Serpent's gift / Lee, Helen Elaine
Counter-clockwise / Lee, John M.
Gotham diaries / Lee, Tonya Lewis
Do Lord remember me / Lester, Julius
I got somebody in Staunton / Lewis, William Henry
Sap rising / Lincoldn, Christine
Avenue, Clayton City / Lincoln, C. Eric
Acting out / Little, Benilde
Itch / Little, Benilde
Who does she think she is / Little, Benilde
Sisterhood situation / Louard, Janette McCarthy
Mama's girls / Louard, Janette McCarthy
Song of night / Lovell, Glenville
Fire in the canes / Lovell, Glenville
Love and death in Brooklyn / Lovell, Glenville
Too beautiful to die / Lovell, Glenville
Painted Turtle / Major, Clarence
Reflex and bone structure / Major, Clarence
Such was the season / Major, Clarence
Emergency exit / Major, Clarence
Fun & games / Major, Clarence
My amputations / Major, Clarence
One flesh / Major, Clarence
Brown glass windows / Major, Devorah
Open weave / Major, Devorah
Family affair / Major, Marcus
4 guys and trouble / Major, Marcus
Distant lover / Mallette, Gloria
Promises to keep / Mallette, Gloria
Shades of jade / Mallette, Gloria
Shackling water / Mansbach, Adam
Brown girl, brownstones / Marshall, Paule
Daughters / Marshall, Paule
Fisher king / Marshall, Paule
Praisesong for the widow / Marshall, Paule
Jamaica run / Mason, Clifford
Case of the Ashanti gold / Mason, Clifford
Testimony / Mason, Felicia
Don't want no sugar / Mason, J. D.
Within the shadows / Massey, Brandon
Miracle at St. Anna / McBride, James
Always / McCann, Timmothy B.
Heart of devotion / McCollors, Tia
Heroin factor / McEachin, James
Tell me a tale / McEachin, James
Loving Donovan / McFadden, Bernice L.
What's a woman to do? / McGlothin, Victor
Every sistah wants it / McGlothin, Victor
Gingertown / McKay, Claude
Home to Harlem / McKay, Claude
As real as it gets / McKayhan, Monica
Blues dancing / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Leaving Cecil Street / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Tempest rising / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Tumbling / McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
He sleeps / McKnight, Reginald
Moustapha's eclipse / McKnight, Reginald
White boys / McKnight, Reginald
Blue collar blues / McMillan, Rosalyn
Knowing / McMIllan, Rosalyn
Interruption of everything / McMillan, Terry
Waiting to exhale / McMillan, Terry
Fragments of the ark / Meriwether, Louise
Shadow dancing / Meriwether, Louise
Case of Mrs. Wingate / Micheaux, Oscar
Masquerade / Micheaux, Oscar
Wind from nowhere / Micheaux, Oscar
Night songs / Mickelbury, Penny
Paradise interrupted / Mickelbury, Penny
Step between / Mickelbury, Penny
Where to choose / Mickelbury, Penny
Laying on of hands / Miller, Brenda Rhodes
I'm telling / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
Ida B. / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
Ida B. / Miller, Karen E. Quinones
Love story / Millner, Denene
Vow / Millner, Denene
Isle of Canes / Mills, Elizabeth Shown
Proud and angry dust / Mitchell, Kathryn
Traveling light / Mitchell, Lionel
Near perfect / Mitchell, Sharon
Sheer necessity / Mitchell, Sharon
In sheep's clothing / Monroe, Mary
Red light wives / Monroe, Mary
Lova' like no otha' / Moore, Stephanie Perry
Triple take / Moore, Y. Blak
Too beautiful for words / Morris, Monique W.
Somebody's gotta be on top / Morrison, Mary B.
Soul mates dissipate / Morrison, Mary B.
Beloved / Morrison, Toni
Bluest eye / Morrison, Toni
Love / Morrison, Toni
Paradise / Morrison, Toni
Song of Solomon / Morrison, Toni
Sula / Morrison, Toni
Tar baby / Morrison, Toni
Bad Boy Brawly Brown / Mosley, Walter
Black Betty / Mosley, Walter
Blue light / Mosley, Walter
Cinnamon kiss / Mosley, Walter
Devil in a blue dress / Mosley, Walter
Fear itself / Mosley, Walter
Fearless Jones / Mosley, Walter
Futureland / Mosley, Walter
Gone fishin' / Mosley, Walter
Little Scarlet / Mosley, Walter
Little yellow dog / Mosley, Walter
Man in my basement / Mosley, Walter
Red death / Mosley, Walter
Six easy pieces / Mosley, Walter
Walkin' the dog / Mosley, Walter
Wave / Mosley, Walter
White butterfly / Mosley, Walter
We fished all night / Motley, Willard
Her / Muhanji, Cherry<